Table of Contents - Mainstream, June 17 & 24, 2023

In this issue:

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 17 & 24, 2023
• Imphal - a Historic Turning Point? | S G Vombatkere
• Development Delusions & Forthcoming Panchayat Elections in Bengal | Sunil Ray
• CPM’s 34-year rule in West Bengal (Part 1) | Kobad Ghandy with Ghosh and Hazra
• The Indispensability of Brij Bhushan Singh | Faraz Ahmad
• The Congress Government in Karnataka and NEP 2020 | P. S. Jayaramu
• Fadnavis’s “Aurangzeb Ki Aulad” Narrative Violates Constitution, Otherises Minorities, and Endangers Communal Harmony | S N Sahu
• Future of Work & Its Implications on the Labour Market | Kingshuk Sarkar & D N Venkatesh
• On the Fundamental Rights of the Sex Workers & Others in India | Pradip Baksi
• Making Sense of the Crisis - Pakistan Army & the Collapse of the Imran Khan Government | M A Sofi
• The rise and rise of far-right in Germany | M. K. Bhadrakumar
• Why do some Filipinos support police shoot-to-kill policy? | Danielle P. Ochoa
• The Trendsetter, Daniel Ellsberg whose Conscience Hurt | Papri Sri Raman

DOCUMENTS

• Uttarakhand Situation: Statement by Citizens for Peace | June 12, 2023
• intimidation & harassment of journalists | Statement by EGI
• Statement from the International Summit for Peace in Ukraine, 2023

BOOKS

• How Development Has Become Nature’s Enemy | M.R. Narayan Swamy
• A Study of Women Farmers Under Kudumbashree Collective Farming in Kerala | Sudeshna Sengupta

IMAGE & SOUND:

• Painting: ’An Indian Jay’ by J Whatman (1820)
• Music: Reggae Fi Radni [Walter Rodney] by Linton Kwesi Johnson (1983)
• Video: Wrestlers Campaign Against Sexual Harassment - Accountability of Institutions

Editors’s Picks:

• In Photos: For G20 ’Beautification’, Poor Families Living Along the Yamuna Face Eviction
• A Massive Vaccine Database Leak Exposes IDs of Millions of Indians
• China’s Inequality Will Lead It to a Stark Choice
• A New Serbia?
• From ‘cranks’ to contenders: how Spain’s far-right Vox party is rising toward power

* (Cover Page Artwork Credits: Jean Fouquet - Cigarette case project, 1925)